Traffic Flow Dynamics - Data, Models and Simulation (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

This textbook provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of vehicular traffic flow dynamics and modeling. It makes this fascinating interdisciplinary topic, which to date was only documented in parts by specialized monographs, accessible to a broad readership. Numerous figures and problems with solutions help the reader to quickly understand and practice the presented concepts. This book is targeted at students of physics and traffic engineering and, more generally, also at students and professionals in computer science, mathematics, and interdisciplinary topics. It also offers material for project work in programming and simulation at college and university level. The main part, after presenting different categories of traffic data, is devoted to a mathematical description of the dynamics of traffic flow, covering macroscopic models which describe traffic in terms of density, as well as microscopic many-particle models in which each particle corresponds to a vehicle and its driver. Focus chapters on traffic instabilities and model calibration/validation present these topics in a novel and systematic way. Finally, the theoretical framework is shown at work in selected applications such as traffic-state and travel-time estimation, intelligent transportation systems, traffic operations management, and a detailed physics-based model for fuel consumption and emissions.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2013
Authors:	Martin Treiber • Arne Kesting
Translators:	Martin Treiber • Christian Thiemann
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	506
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-32459-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Operational research Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Optimization > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematical modelling Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Statistical physics
LSN:	3-642-32459-2
Barcode:	9783642324598

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